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Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann sentenced to life in prison

Long Island architect Rex Heuermann, who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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ANCILLARY TO THE PROBATION VIOLATIONS” AND NOT A CRIMINAL OFFENSE. MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LONG ISLAND NEW YORK SERIAL KILLER CASE… THE SUSPECT, REX HEUERMANN PLEADING GUILTY TO EIGHT DIFFERENT MURDERS DATING BACK TO THE 1990’S. HE ORIGINALLY PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO SEVEN OF T

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Rex Heuermann, a New York architect who discreetly murdered women for at least 17 years until police realized that their deaths were the work of a serial killer, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole.The sentencing caps an extraordinary investigation that solved one of New York’s most perplexing mysteries — one that began as a series of seemingly unconnected and largely unmarked disappearances of young sex workers, but became the focus of true-crime documentaries, books and podcasts after police began discovering the victims’ skeletal remains along a coastal parkway near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach.Heuermann previously admitted in court that he killed eight women.

Rex Heuermann, a New York architect who discreetly murdered women for at least 17 years until police realized that their deaths were the work of a serial killer, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole.

The sentencing caps an extraordinary investigation that solved one of New York’s most perplexing mysteries — one that began as a series of seemingly unconnected and largely unmarked disappearances of young sex workers, but became the focus of true-crime documentaries, books and podcasts after police began discovering the victims’ skeletal remains along a coastal parkway near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach.

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Heuermann previously admitted in court that he killed eight women.

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